Penny wise, pound foolish.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
小事
trifle
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
trifle
02
trivial matter
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 小事 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 小事 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
No matter how low the target, always aim higher.
They always fight over little things.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 小事.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 小事.
Directly before
- 的小事3
- 一些小事2
- 学小事1
- 为了小事1
- 这点小事1
Directly after
- 小事聪明1
- 小事麻烦1
- 小事不1
- 小事掘1
- 小事吵架1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 小事
What does 小事 mean in Chinese?
小事 (xiǎoshì) means trifle.
How do you pronounce 小事?
小事 is pronounced xiǎoshì.
Is 小事 an HSK word?
小事 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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